Things vs omnifocus

[Russell Brown]

Any pearls of wisdom?

Pros/cons?

Ta

Russell

[Sam - MacAmbulance]

I use things and really like it. Haven't used omnifocus but can recommend things.

Regards

Sam

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[Philippe Chandless]

Another very satisfied Things user. Don't know Omnifocus.
Philippe

[Jason Kitcat]

I'm a big fan of Things - have it on my Macs, iPhone and iPad. I found OmniFocus far too over-complex for my needs.

On 12 Nov 2010, at 13:50, Sam - MacAmbulance wrote:
> I use things and really like it. Haven't used omnifocus but can recommend things.

All the best,
Jason

[Gillian Snoxall]

What is Things, and what is Omnifocus? Can someone enlighten me?

Gilly

[Rob Beattie]

They're task managers - to do lists. For example I don't need anything
complicated I just use Google Tasks and then sync that to GeeTasksLite
on my iPhone.

The best name ever for one of these of course is Put Things Off - an iPhone app.

Rob
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[Stephen Ticehurst]

I'm using Todo which seems to work quite well and is very GTD based

Sent from my iPad

[Jason Davies]

Very happy omnifocus user. Syncs across 4 devices very happily via mobile me. Very reliable.

From my iPhone

[David Lazarus]

Things is available for the iPhone and iPad as well, which is a definite plus.

David

[David Lazarus]

Things is a to do list and very good. You can set up as many different recurrent tasks as you like. I have it set to update daily with each days tasks and to recurrent tasks on varying lengths. It makes it easier to keep up to date with chores and projects.

David

[Stephen Watson]

Very happy OmniFocus user since day 1. It's very powerful and flexible but may be too much for some. I run it on my iPod touch and iPad too. Syncing between all three using MobileMe is seamless, though Omni are now offering a Beta of free use of their own servers for the purpose and Omni's level of support is superb.

I can't speak for Things but I hear many good ... things about it.

Omnifocus can be perused here: http://www.omnigroup.com/products/omnifocus

The iPhone and iPad links are on the same page.

The WhitePaper (at the bottom of the page) is worth downloading for an overview of the whole concept.

Stephen

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[Graham Street]

Anyone thinking of buying 'Things' is well advised to change the country
on their website Store page. In Sterling, its �44.95. But switching the
country to United States changes the price to $49.95. That's only just
over �31 at today's rates.
... Graham

on 13/11/2010 09:13 David Lazarus sent the following:

[Stephen Ticehurst]

Actually, I take it back about Todo - I am looking for a GTD task manager for iPad and it seems Todo on iPad is much the same as Todo on iphone.

For those who use either Things or Omnifocus, is there a way to email tasks into the INBOX?

Sent from my iPad

[Gillian Snoxall]

Ooooh. Interesting!

Gilly

[Jason Davies]

On which device?

From my iPhone

[Stephen Ticehurst]

What I'm meaning is that quite often I will get an email detailing an online purchase or a bill (for example) and it would be good if such email I could "send to" things or omnifocus from the mail app. Would the iPad apps for these allow that I wonder?

[Stephen Watson]

Omnifocus has two ways for getting tasks into its Inbox:

1) Install the Clip-O-Tron 3000 (they have a sense of humour at Omni!) into Mail then when you are looking at an email you want to handle in Omnifocus you press your chosen shortcut key and the email (or selected portion) is made into an Inbox entry complete with a link back to the original in Mail. You can then process the action as you want.

2) I quote here from the Omnifocus help:

"When it’s not convenient for you to put data directly into OmniFocus (like when you’re sitting at a someone else’s computer), you can send a specially-formatted email to yourself and OmniFocus will process it later. To set it up, use the OmniFocus Mail preference pane.

To turn on Mail processing, select the Add Mail Rule to create OmniFocus actions checkbox.

Once the Mail Rule has been added, you can tell OmniFocus what kind of messages to look for. One way is to look for messages that have +omnifocus before the @ sign in the destination address, as in cornelius...@omnigroup.com. If your mail service is properly set up for this type of addressing, the message arrives in the correct mailbox as if the plus sign and the extra word were not there, but they act as a label for special handling. The other way is to look for messages whose subject line begins with certain characters, -- by default.

If you want to keep the messages that OmniFocus processes in a certain mailbox, select Archive processed messages and choose a mailbox. Otherwise, they are deleted.
The Allowed From addresses list is automatically filled with any email addresses on the “Me” card in Address Book. You can add more addresses, if you expect to be sending yourself OmniFocus actions from any other accounts."

You can specify the Project and Context too and have it automatically filed in the right place.

Omni have a two week free trial of the Mac version here: http://www.omnigroup.com/products/omnifocus/download/

I hope that's of help.

Cheers,

Stephen

On 13 Nov 2010, at 12:46, Stephen Ticehurst wrote:

> Actually, I take it back about Todo - I am looking for a GTD task manager for iPad and it seems Todo on iPad is much the same as Todo on iphone.
>
> For those who use either Things or Omnifocus, is there a way to email tasks into the INBOX?
>

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